[git commit] hexdump: fix regression for uint16 on big endian systems

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Tue Jul 1 11:31:45 UTC 2025


commit: https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=f5c7cae55fc3e19d074198bc12152486067ea8c7
branch: https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=refs/heads/master

Commit 34751d8bf introduced a bug in the handling of uint16
values on big endian systems not considered safe for unaligned
access when falling back to memcpy.

Signed-off-by: Radoslav Kolev <radoslav.kolev at suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
---
 libbb/dump.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libbb/dump.c b/libbb/dump.c
index 2ca9919da..ac5d47d9e 100644
--- a/libbb/dump.c
+++ b/libbb/dump.c
@@ -667,15 +667,21 @@ static NOINLINE void display(priv_dumper_t* dumper)
 							conv_u(pr, bp);
 							break;
 						case F_UINT: {
+							union {
+								uint16_t uval16;
+								uint32_t uval32;
+							} u;
 							unsigned value = (unsigned char)*bp;
 							switch (pr->bcnt) {
 							case 1:
 								break;
 							case 2:
-								move_from_unaligned16(value, bp);
+								move_from_unaligned16(u.uval16, bp);
+								value = u.uval16;
 								break;
 							case 4:
-								move_from_unaligned32(value, bp);
+								move_from_unaligned32(u.uval32, bp);
+								value = u.uval32;
 								break;
 							/* case 8: no users yet */
 							}


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